Hotkey testing

[Joshua Chambers]

I don't know about that particular controller.  But I have a Logitech
wireless keyboard/mouse combo and it's got a nifty volume control knob
at the top of the keyboard with like track control keys and a mute
button.  That volume control and mute buttons work out of the box on my
Breezy!  I was like... impressed.  :)

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 04:03 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Several types of laptop have a keyboard controller made by a company 
> called Wistron. These machines usually have hotkeys that generate 
> keycodes providing that a register has been set in the keyboard 
> controller first. At the moment, we don't support these out of the box.
> 
> The 2.6.15 kernel provides a driver that should enable these keys. 
> Unfortunately, for it to be useful, we need to know which computers to 
> load it on. Even more unfortunately, it tends to crash machines that 
> don't have these controllers. So, the only real solution is for us to 
> generate a whitelist of machines that work correctly with it.
> 
> WARNING
> 
> Following this procedure may hang your machine. Make sure that all your 
> work is saved.
> 
> 1) First, switch to a text console (ctrl+alt+f1) and log in
> 2) Press a hotkey
> 3) Type dmesg. Does a message about unknown scan codes appear? If so, 
> your hotkeys are already supported. Please ignore the rest of this.
> 4) Type showkey. Press your hotkeys. Do numbers appear? If so, this 
> driver won't help you. Please ignore the rest of this.
> 5) Type sudo modprobe wistron_btns force=1
> 6) If your machine hangs, this driver isn't likely to help you 
> (obviously enough). Please ignore the rest of this
> 7) If your machine doesn't hang, press all your hotkeys and then run 
> dmesg again. Do you get any messages like ""wistron_btns: Unknown key 
> code"? If not, this driver doesn't do anything for your hardware. Please 
> ignore the rest of this.
> 8) So, you've loaded the driver, your machine hasn't hung and pressing 
> keys generates messages about unknown key codes. Please email me the 
> output of the dmidecode command (needs to be run with sudo) and the 
> codes that each key generates. Once that's done, we ought to be able to 
> support your machine automatically. Oh, and let me know if you have a 
> wifi or bluetooth button - these need to be handled slightly specially.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
>